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Today's Topics:

1. Re: What is with swap? (Andrew)


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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:08:13 +0000
From: Andrew <andrewsoltau@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] What is with swap?
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On 18/03/16 09:20, Andrew wrote:
> Now run 'htop' in a terminal window (you may need to install it first).
> You want to sort (F6) on the virtual memory column, but the name of that
> from a sort perspective depends on the version of htop. The current Debian
> version calls it "M_SIZE".
>
> That will show you which processes are using the most virtual memory, and
> the "VIRT" column will tell you how much they are using. You may well find
> the same process listed multiple times. What are the top two or three
> unique processes, and how much virtual memory is each using?
Seems firefox is running a pid for each tab - about 45 of them fit on
the screen. Virt is 2763M.

command for each one is:
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bristol
which seems odd

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